MasterGraveheart

I'm not gonna lie? You lost me when you rated ZA the worst when BDSP, Let's Go, Sword & Shield, and Ruby/Sapphire exist. Also, FireRed/LeafGreen that low? C'mon, now.

Aw dang... Abigail's gonna get jealous when I try to do all of Sandy's heart events... X'D

I'm optimistic. I've thoroughly enjoyed playing FF7 Remake on Switch 2, even if it's technically an inferior version. Frame rates and polygonal crunching was never that important to me, so, if it looks a little worse and plays as the others did, I'm happy with it. At some point, the poly-crunch just begins to become inconsequential.

And if I do wanna play a technically superior version, I have the games on PC. I just... need a PC that'll... actually... play it...

...

I forgot to read the tech specs when they hit Steam... ;_;

**PREDICTION!**

A Pokémon DATING SIM! At long last! Date the PokéMommies of your dreams in a whimsical world!

The only catch? You play as a Trubbish. :3

/s

Uhhhh… wow! I wonder if they did this in error, or they just decided not to let it be a shadow drop. Either way… MINE!”

I played the heck out of FireRed back in the day. It’ll be nice to have another go at these, LeafGreen this time for me.

Squirtle was my first ever. It'll always be my favorite (or one of its evolutions, depending on the day!).

Whelp! There goes the programming and graphics budget! Hope y'all liked Sword & Shield.

Was the Virtual Boy... AHEAD OF ITS TIME?!?!

Honestly, I don't care about the multiplayer stuff. I'm more interested in the single player stuff. I wish they'd put more emphasis on that. We reclusive hermits need love too!

Dwarf and Sandy!

There's something fishy going on here. I don't know if one country's standards are holding it back, but I do need to call foul on the "separate SKU" thing. We've seen it.

There's still a lot of outstanding issues here. The lack of communication ahead of time. Who is actually making this call. Why we didn't learn about it until after pre-orders were locked in. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Nintendo's call for the censorship, but then you get games like Cyberpunk 2077 that can be released as-is, and physically to boot. Then you get separate physical and digital contents for games like Perky Little Things in Europe, and wonder why this can't get the same treatment.

I'm going to guess that the licensed music is a sticking point here, and that there'd need to be a whole new licensing agreement with everything to get a different physical edition, or totally uncensored edition, done. At least in part.

Nintendo... get over it. Start putting responsibility on the parents and stop being afraid of some of the naughty stuff.

Fix this.

Honestly, I think it's still very silly. Censorship options should be a choice of the consumer, the game is clearly not for kids (check the rating, it's what it's there for), and either Nintendo is being heavy-handed or AdHoc severely underestimated their potential audience on Switch 2... or both.

GAME OVER

RETURN OF GANON

And that laughter in the background accompanied by a dark shadow... XD

So many great collections of terrible Nickelodeon games coming out... ah well, score one for preservation nonetheless!

Love to see it! Maybe we'll get more games added in in the future... but I think we already have Aladdin and Gargoyles in collections, I don't think Mighty Ducks or Gummi Bears had a game, and Lion King is definitely in a collection and would probably be too much of a stretch for Timon & Pumbaa representation.

There's literally games with "Hentai" in the title flooding the eShop, and games that actually have no censorship on Switch 2 period (Cyberpunk 2077 has been mentioned several times and that's my example too), yet this is censored? Why do I get the funny feeling this was also AdHoc's call? Maybe to get advertising on the platform, it had to be censored? I dunno. It's a bummer.

I highly doubt it's going to be Reunion. That was already the name of the remake of Crisis Core. It'd be too confusing.

If we go by the soundtrack theory, it's probably gonna be "Return."

Love this game! I hope we have photo mode here, if not now, then at some point.

Ah, Nintendo, you can be so head-scratchingly petty sometimes... ^^;

@Brilliant_Bird_Man Technically, Robotnik is faster than Sonic too, so, it's not outside the realm of possibility. ^^;

I've meditated on this for so long, that, I've actually come to think about the idea of "Chronologically Confused," as coined by the AVGN. And I've thought about the titles of games.

I think one of this game's problems, in part, is that it's called "Metroid Prime 4."

Think about it. For a game meant to be so like previous Metroid Prime games, there's just enough to make the gamer uncomfortable. A cast of vocal characters. Sections unlike what we'd seen before. The absence of certain other aspects are gone.

What we have is a very good first person Metroid game that bears a resemblance to Prime games, but is wanting to do something different. Perhaps in that difference, though, is where the disconnect with gamers is happening?

I think the game would have been best-served to be called "Metroid Beyond," and just nix the Prime name all together. If gamers felt it was worthy to be called Prime 4, they'd just call it that themselves anyway. A spiritual successor, if you will. And that freedom from that name would give the developers freedom to pursue their own thing. Plus, if gamers decided "no, this isn't Prime enough to be Prime 4, but something new," le gasp! You've suddenly created another sub-series in Metroid that's got its own core of fans!

Just a thought.

But Myles still needed to stick a sock in it.

I don't like using caps lock indiscriminately, but this one warrants it.

ABOUT. BLOODY. TIME!! <3

Welcome aboard, Mai! Hope you enjoy your stay!

Bring on the old stuff. Finest Hour specifically... which is not on the poll...

Not that I'm buying any of it, but, that'd be the one I'm most interested in.

The classic cover is my favorite, but the Captain Commando one is great too!

I entered... the first time I ever hand-drew something in earnest... good luck, Siphon Woman!

They couldn't fix the Switch 1 version for Switch 2, huh?

This stance doesn't sell me in the slightest. AI's mindsets and thought processes were stolen from works from artists who rely on their art to make a living. And here comes AI to make lazy, cheap people bypass the artist to get a result without the work or effort. It fuels the sense of entitlement that the human race has embodied for generations, and it's disgusting.

Frankly, there should be a law that anything created with generative AI cannot be copyrighted, patented, trademarked, or profited off of. And further, anything produced with such must have a sizeable, contrasting, watermark visible to the consumer so they know it was made with AI.

Not only that, but because of the nature of which AI gets the information and methods for writing and artwork? It threatens the stagnation of culture. Without the human artist creating something new, pushing limits, and pushing the envelope, there will be no growth of culture. No record of where we are. What we're doing. And that's dangerous.

So, yeah, no, after the contrarian comments, after these comments, my opinion does not change.

AI has no place in art, writing, film, or video games.

Put it to work trying to find a cure for cancer.

Heck yeah! I want! Frankly, this trilogy was a better gameplay experience than the original games. Even looking at them as a "product of their time."

Just maybe do a better job with the Switch 2 ports, please?

It sounded like it was doing a really good job. I'm very impressed with my own time with it and can't wait for the full version.

I'll be going digital, because Game Key Cards, might as well go digital and keep that card slot free for something else, but that's just me. It's gonna be a great time either way.

Also, Tifa for Smash!

It's an excellent game. Mouse support would be very nice in a future update, tho!

Bah… I really wanted Adeleine in the game…

@Oldstalk You do realize that TEAM SIZE isn't what makes a company independent, right? Independent, in the context of gaming, means separated from all of the big megacorps, like Nintendo, EA, Bethesda, Sega, Sony, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Epic Games, Capcom, Konami, SquareEnix, etc. That independent company could have one or one hundred people behind it. It's ownership that matters in the definition.

You could consider a company like WayForward or Yacht Club Games independent in that sense, despite how much success or presence they've had.

EDIT: Also, ZERO idea who Young Yea is, so, bringing them up was just completely useless. Maybe you're frustrated on the subject, but don't project other people's views onto other people, mkay?

Expedition 33 really deserved it. It just sucks it had to come at the expense of other great titles, like Silksong, Hades II, and Donkey Kong Bananza. But then again, it probably makes a louder statement to the industry if it beats other top shelf titles and not a bunch of AAA junkers.

Maybe I'm just twitchy on the subject now, but this really looks like AI fakes. Laura doesn't look the same in any of the photos.

Need some serious Mischief Makers and Goemon action on the N64 NSO.

At this point, I'm pretty sure there's a law requiring Skyrim natively on every platform.

So, this is a perfect storm of awful.

WBD is owned by one of the most internally destructive individuals in David Zaslav, who has scrapped projects for a tax write-off while not exactly doing much for the Warner Bros. side while favoring the Discovery side, where he came from.

Netflix has a great streaming presence, but a takeover by them would mean EVERYTHING would move to stream and nothing would go to theaters, who'll end up eating that massive hit.

Paramount Skydance has been getting more and more political, and have been favored by the current US administration. It's not outside the realm of likely possibility to think that the products put out will reflect as such.

It's honestly just a massively awful situation.

I hope they go as raw and thematic, while also raunchy and silly, as the original movie was. Otherwise it's just a generic branded FPS. ^^;

Decent list. Silksong is WAY too low, though, and the lack of Sonic Racing Crossworlds (which IS superior to Mario Kart World) being left off is a disservice.

I really want an HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger, but I'll settle for an NSO port of the SNES original. As long as it cuts out all connections to Chrono Cross (which did a huge disservice to Trigger), it'll be good. Frankly, I don't even wanna see Toryama's anime cut-scenes return. They felt so awkward and out of place.

I forgot that wasn't supported yet... huh... well okay then!

Now, how about that HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger without the Chrono Cross ties, SquareEnix? :3

"Myles bugs you a little too much."

6/10, too much hand-holding.

But seriously, that should be an option, not mandatory. Not all of us are taking extended breaks between sessions, nor are we all in need of that kind of reminding.

Myles: Hey, Samus, need me to keep in touch?

Samus: No.

Myles: Right-o! Good luck out there!

Also, no I'm not actually rating the game 6/10 because of that, I haven't played it to try for myself, calm your butts, people.

@Mana_Knight I knew I was forgetting another big one in there somewhere. Yeah, loved that one too. Can't believe I forgot that one.

"I was once a fool" indeed.

I feel bad for her. She's one of my all-time favorite VAs. Sheena Fujibayashi, Samus Aran, Naomi Hunter, Black Cat, Commander Shepard, Kimmy Howell, Ashe, Jessie Bannon, Katnappe, Mantis, Jean Grey... and she did great as Bayonetta! The whole situation really was a disservice to her.

EDIT: Alexandra Roivas too! <3

I think the American one IS cooler, but I think the Japanese style and art edges it out on in-game accuracy.

@horizonisland Yeah, DQB1 is probably the next big one I'm thinking of. I'm on the last chapters of DQB2, so, I'd like to go back to DQB1 when I'm done.

If they're going to add maps, they need to add characters too. I will keep saying this until Adeleine is added. <3

Sooooo... Mochtroid, Metroid, or Omega Metroid? Got it!